"I think everyone will recognise that schools sometimes face difficult decisions when balancing the need for a consistent uniform policy with religious beliefs, " Ms Woods said.
If and when face-recognition technology improves to the point where surreptitious cameras can routinely recognise individuals, privacy, as it has existed in the public sphere, will in effect be wiped out.
"You will have no problem to recognise first of all that it's Africa and you have the face of one of the most popular and well-known faces of the continent, " Blatter told reporters.